Sain's Streak to 7; Three Errors for Bush

Steve Baker is everywhere for the Storm, Matt Bush's defense is just everywhere, and Greg Sain has mashed in seven straight. The 411 on the Padres minor league system is always at MadFriars.com

Portland won 3-2 in
10

Since missing out on a chance to join the Padres bullpen,
Randy Williams has been solid for the Beavers.Williams has allowed one run on four hits in six outings, spanning 6.1
innings.He has not allowed an inherited
runner to score this year.

Robert Fick returned from the injured list to drive in the
winning run in the tenth inning on a sacrifice fly.Fick, who went 1-for-3 and was hit by a
pitch, had been out since opening day.

Damian Jackson went 1-for-2 with three walks and a run
scored.He stole second in the tenth and
moved to third when former Beaver Yamid Haad sailed his throw into center.He scored on the Fick fly ball. Jackson has
not had more than one hit in any of his five games but has reached base at
least twice in four of them.

Joe Gerber stretched his hitless streak to 24 at bats when
he flied out in the ninth inning.

Mobile lost 2-0

The BayBears managed just four hits on Tuesday with Greg Sain accounting for two of those.Sain
extended his hitting streak to seven games, going 10-for-28 over the
streak.He did get thrown out trying to
steal second base. Sain went 1-1 in stolen base attempts last season

Mobile hitters struck out 13 times.Corey Smith and Nick Trzesniak, both hitting
above .300, whiffed three times apiece.It was the first time this year that Smith has struck out three times in
the same game and the second time for Trzesniak.Ironically, Trzesniak has whiffed just two
times in eight other games.

Mike Thompson went seven strong, allowing two runs on six
hits and a walk.The one error, a two
run homer in the second.Thompson has
allowed four runs over his first three starts of the year, spanning 18 innings
of work.His most impressive stat on the
young season is a .224 batting average against, a year after hitters batted at
a .290 clip and .297 in games he started.

"I think we're pitching real well right now," said
BayBears reliever Craig Breslow, who retired two batters in a scoreless eighth
inning. "The hits will come. Our hitters led the way for us for awhile; we
have a long season ahead of us."

Lake Elsinore lost
4-3

Steve Baker has four outfield assists this season in 12
games.He threw out a runner at home
plate on Tuesday, one day after nabbing a runner at second.His first two assists also came on successive
days.Baker also went 2-for-4 at the
plate, the only batter to record multiple hits, with an RBI.He's hitting .380 on the year.

Chris Tierney allowed three runs on six hits in six innings
of work.He has allowed three earned
runs in each of his three starts this year but Tuesday was the first time he
pitched more than 4.1 innings.Tierney
allowed four or more earned runs in five of his eight starts with the Storm
last year.

Howie Pence made his fourth appearance of the year and took
the loss.Pence has allowed runs in
three of his four outings.Last year
while with Fort Wayne, Pence made 17 appearances before allowing a
run in three different games.

Fort Wayne won 7-2

Brett Dowdy hit his first homer of the year, going 2-for-5
with two RBI's.The third baseman had
gone through his first eight games without an extra base hit but has two in the
last two days.Dowdy hit one home run
last year, and had five extra base hits in 78 games, splitting time between
Double-A Jacksonville (36 games) and Vero Beach (42).Dowdy has five RBI's this year, matching his
total with Jacksonville last year.

Clayton Hamilton allowed one run, zero earned, on five hits
in five innings of work to get his second straight win.It took Hamilton 12 games, including six
starts, to get his season total of two wins last year.

Matt Bush entered the game with two errors on the season but
committed three on Tuesday.Bush made
seven errors in eight games while playing for Eugene last year and he
committed ten errors in 21 games playing Rookie League ball in
Arizona.